How Many People Are Named Lamya?

2,028

people named Lamya are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 168,532 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,046 babies named Lamya in Social Security records from 1981 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,689

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,736

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Peak Year

2007

162 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Arabic
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "having beautiful dark lips" in Arabic.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lamya in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lamya alive today is about 16 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 21 in 2025.

Under 30 1,988
98%
30 to 59 40
2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lamya first appears in the records in 1981 and was given most often in 2007, to 162 babies. In 2025, 14 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1981 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lamya has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,452, in 2007. In 2025 it ranked #7,702.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,702
Best rank#1,452 (2007)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,864 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lamya alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lamya were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 138 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lamya was given 4.3 times as often in Michigan, 3.4 times in Illinois and 3 times in Ohio.

Illinois 138
Michigan 121
Ohio 104
Texas 72
California 70
Florida 55
Georgia 49
Tennessee 48
North Carolina 41
New York 33
Pennsylvania 30
Missouri 29
Indiana 28
Louisiana 25
Maryland 17
Alabama 16
Virginia 14
New Jersey 12
Minnesota 11
South Carolina 10
Mississippi 10
Oklahoma 6
Delaware 5
Wisconsin 5

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